Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Polish journalist
When Pope John Paul II made his historic homecoming to Poland earlier this month, hundreds of Western journalists covered the trip as they would any fast-breaking major story, constantly revising and updating their reports as events unfolded. But their Polish counterparts had no such need for speed and flexibility. The content of their stories-and the number of accompanying photographs -had been largely dictated by the Polish Communist Party's Central Committee weeks before the Pope arrived...
...memo unabashedly noted that some Polish journalists would have "ideological and propaganda tasks" throughout the trip and that their stories, even those in nominally independent church publications, would be scrutinized by two five-man censorship teams. The document also recommended that a group of Polish journalists be assigned as propagandists to accompany "certain Western newsmen who show a hostile bias toward...
...opening day of the visit, the morning and afternoon press will publish a picture of the Pope, the news of his arrival, a profile and a commentary to be distributed by PAP [Polish Press Agency...
Financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation, Lifton spent ten months in Europe and the Middle East interviewing scores of German doctors, former Nazi bureaucrats and inmate doctors, mostly Jewish and Polish...